Characters Quotes

"I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know"

"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools"

Erik Qualman, Author

"I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters"

John Burns, Activist

"The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous"

Brian De Palma, Director

"I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface"

David O. Russell, Director

"When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model"

Eva Green, Actress

"My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story"

David Morse

"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I never act my characters - I am them"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance"

David Brin, Author

"My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea"

David Brin, Author

"I've heard people say, 'I love how the characters never say what they're really thinking, and I love how things are so open-ended and you just never know what's going to happen.' Do you know what I mean? So it's an opinion, you know? I've heard very few, if any criticisms of the show, and I think that it obviously is working, whatever we're doing"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring"

David Brin, Author

"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis"

Albert Finney, Actor

"But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him"

Mel Brooks, Comedian

"I love playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's because I'm intrigued by them"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters"

Margaret Halsey, Author

"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you"

Sophie Marceau, Actress

"I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters"

Halle Berry, Actress

"There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters"

Garth Ennis, Writer

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